Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-10-08
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

Stephen A. Douglas is in tho east on a tour
of the watering places.
Gen. Miles gets 81 900 sword for cleaning
out Geronimo from the grateful citizens OF
Arizona who realize that their scalps ore still
OH their heads.
Harrie, Beecher Stowe has written a letter
to friend denying that shc is in poor health.
She says that sho is able to take LONG walk
every day and feels strong and hopeful
Carl Schurz, while slowly recovering from
the injuries he received from fall some
months ago, spends most of his time in play
ing chess with his daughter, reading and
writing. He is IL flue piano player, and often
entertains his friends with exhibitions Of his
skill.
Tho son of Joshua R. GildinCs, the old
Ohio abolitionist, lives az Jefrerson, the
county seat of Ashtabula county. Hc prac-
ticeS law and runs farm, but he takes very
little interest il, politics. The son OF Dom
Wade lives in the samo town. Ho gives hinl-
self up to horses and lets politics Gone.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is about 20 years of
ago and worth certainly s.5, 900 900, perhaps
sl25, 000,0 600. He is tremendous worker,
aud his friends fear he is injuring his health
by his aSSiduouS attention to the details
of his business 1t SEEMS strange to think
of q man working himself sick when he al
ready has q larger income than he can by any
possibility get rid of. Human nature is
queer thing.
Chancellor j. b. Vincent, OF Chautauqun,
has been presented with pine gavel made
from the famous signal tree which stood on
the summit OF Alatoona mountain, to which
Gen. Sherman, from Kenesaw mountain, if
teen miles away, signaled to Gen. Corse over
tho heads of tho Confederate troops to hold
his position until Federal re-enforccments
could arrive. The gavel calno from Joseph
NJ Brown, a son of Senator Joseph C. Brown.
D. o. Mills is having a $1,000 bronze door
mado for the tomb that he is building at Tar
rytown 1t will be eight feet six by four feet
six. Tho style is in imitation Of the old fash
Toned oak doors, with u lattice woritop. The
panoling cross pieces and wood grooves are to
be repeated in bronze. Three companion
pieces are to be made us windows. They are
three by four feet and i'll bronze lattice work.
Miss Kate Field is tho first person who evor
delivered public lecture in Alaska Tho
subject Of her discourse was entitled can
Evening with Dickens most inappropriate
title. as the lecture began at. 1880 a. m. IT
took place i'll dance house III juneau, mill
ing camp and the largest town of the prov
lnce. Miss Field had large and attentive
audience. Her only remuneration was vote
OF thanks, dinner at the hotel and sub
scription to The FREQ Press, tho only paper in
Alaska
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland speaks in
tue highest terms of her brothers wife. She
tn nks it wonderful that so young and mex
perienced n woman should display such grace
and dignity as the presidents wife. She
made the remark recently that although
Frances was only p years of ago, tho White
House WIS never presided over BY moro
womanly mistress, or with sweeter grace
and dignity. Frances gets her qucenly car
riage from her father said Miss Cleveland;
"the shapely head, the gracefully curved
neck, and the dignifle,l bearing IRE all in
herited from him."
Joseph Garrison, of Hartley, Idaho, has
just been notified from Washington that his
claim for pension was allowed He claimed
back pension since 1S4s. by temporarily
waving heavier claim for entire disability
resulting from wound on the head, inflicted
by bowlder thrown from the roof of house
at the storming of the City of Mexico, ho has
been allowed Sl9 per- month, with 6 per cent.
interest per annum, since 1885, period of
thirty-ninc years. Having served in the war
Of the rebellion rs lieutenant in tue Second
California cavalry, lie expects to get quite al
additional sum. The allowance to him so far
will secure him over $4,000, and when his
other claims for increased pension are adjudi-
Gated he expects to receive $4,000 TO 100000
more